Applying ColorAnimation
A ColorAnimation enables animating colors within a brush, such as LinearGradientBrush and RadialGradientBrush. Basically a color is replaced with another one passing through a gradient. The next example is a little bit particular because it will be applied to a DataGrid control to demonstrate that also business controls can receive animations. The DataGrid exposes an AlternatingRowBackground property that enables specifying a different color for alternating rows. The goal of the example is animating colors in the background of such rows. For this, code in Listing 33.6 shows how to apply the described color animation.
Listing 33.6 Applying a ColorAnimation
As you can see, this kind of animation basically works like
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